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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.